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SHINZO ABE

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 22, 2014
North Korea dashes hopes of Japanese parents over abductees' fate
Three times a day, 88-year-old Kayoko Arimoto makes a ritual offering of food to the daughter she hasn't seen for 31 years. On her birthday, it's rice with red beans followed by cake.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 20, 2014
Abe's female Cabinet picks warrant a closer look
In a Sept. 5 Twitter post, university instructor Akiko Orita pointed out that four of the five women appointed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to his new Cabinet do not use their legal names. Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Sanae Takaichi, state minister in charge of abduction issues Eriko...
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2014
North Korea says abduction probe will take another year
Pyongyang tells Tokyo it is still at 'an early stage' of its re-investigation into possible Japanese abductees and plans to finish the probe in about a year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2014
All systems go for second stage of tax hike: Tanigaki
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Sadakazu Tanigaki said Friday the second stage of the consumption tax rate hike should proceed as planned next year, but said the ruling party is closely monitoring the economic situation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 18, 2014
Abe, Suga both away from Tokyo at the same time
The last few days were rather unusual for the prime minister's office in Nagatacho, Japan's political center: Both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga were not there.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2014
Asahi Shimbun struggles with credibility amid retractions
Self-inflicted wounds to the 135-year-old liberal media flagship may create a tailwind for conservatives who want to recast Japan's wartime past in a less apologetic tone.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Sep 14, 2014
Next consumption tax raise painting Abe into a corner
Ever since the Cabinet Office released preliminary figures last month that showed an annualized 6.8 percent decline in first-quarter GDP, a war of nerves has flared up between the prime minister's office and the Finance Ministry. The next consumption tax hike could be delayed.
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2014
Abe pressures North Korea at rally for abductees' families
With North Korea's report approaching on its second probe into the fate of the Japanese it abducted, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday vowed in front of their families that his administration is committed to bringing them home.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2014
Abe recommits to 'womenomics'
At an international conference focusing on women, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday renewed his pledge to promote the status of women in society.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2014
Women's work culture under fire
One morning in February, the government personnel department began an experiment in a nondescript building in a Tokyo residential area that could end up rewriting the rules of the nation's powerful bureaucracy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 11, 2014
Abe's astute Aussie diplomacy needs to be repeated in Asia
The recent joint declaration by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Australian counterpart, Tony Abbott, affirms that both countries have made great strides toward realizing a late 19th-century dream of closer ties.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 10, 2014
New Cabinet ministers' pasts coming back to haunt Abe
One week after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled his Cabinet with an eye to the future, the past is coming back to haunt him: Revelations of controversial past statements and actions by his newly appointed ministers are drawing criticism abroad.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 10, 2014
Japan's regulator OKs nuclear plant return while pushing to close old reactors
The Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved the restart of a nuclear power station in Kyushu, the first step toward reopening an industry that was mothballed after the Fukushima triple meltdown.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 8, 2014
Sadayuki Sakakibara confirms Keidanren will return to recommending political donations
The nation's biggest business lobby is set to resume recommending for the first time in five years that its member companies make political donations, in an effort to strengthen ties with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration to gain a bigger say in policy.

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